Emrah Atasoy

Emrah Atasoy

Associate of the Department of English
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
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Emrah Atasoy, an Associate Professor of English, is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), working at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Department of English, US from 5 February 2024 to 6 May 2024, sponsored by Professor James Engell. He served as a visiting scholar at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, from September to November 2023, and at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of English Language and Literature from September 2021 to September 2022. He is the author of the monograph Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia (Nobel, 2021). His work appeared in journals such as Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (with Marta Komsta), Studies in the Novel (with Thomas Horan), Utopian Studies, Librosdelacorte.es, Literary Voice, Methis. Studia Humaniora Estonica, SFRA Review, and Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He also contributed chapters to The Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia: Intersectional, Feminist, and Non-Binary Approaches in 21st-Century Speculative Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2021) and Speculations of War: Essays on Conflict in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopian Literature (McFarland, 2021). He is currently co-editing the forthcoming volume Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities (Routledge, 2024) and the forthcoming critical forum "Cultural Encounters and Textual Speculations in the Mediterranean," scheduled for publication in the journal Utopian Studies (2024).

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